This is the dramatic moment when California firefighters rescued a group of people from a car that had been caught in a flood.
This clip, shared by the Orange County Fire Department, shows one adult sitting in the rescued vehicle and four adults inside the rescued vehicle while waiting on the off-ramp to Hwy 55. is showing.
A total of five people were rescued and transferred from the Tustin site.
This was followed by bad weather, including California’s worst rainfall in nearly 200 years.
San Francisco experienced the second heaviest rainfall in 174 years since 1849.
Rescuers extracted an individual from a stranded vehicle late Saturday night
In a video of Saturday’s rescue, crew members from the City of Tustin Fire Department and the Orange County Fire Department can be seen rowing the stranded vehicle in a rescue boat.
Rescuers pull passengers into boats as it rains.
“OCFA’s Technical Rescue Truck FF launched a rescue boat to carry the three to safety after the two managed to get out on their own. All five were assessed by the FFPM and unharmed.” The Orange County Fire Department said in a tweet.
Four of them were taken by ambulance to a nearby home.
Orange County officials thanked the California Highway Patrol and the California Department of Transportation for their assistance.
After months of drought-like conditions, the rains in SoCal are welcomed, but the weather is causing major problems across the state, especially in Northern California.
One person was rescued from a car while the other four were dragged out of the submerged vehicle.
Rescuers took people to safety in rescue boats
The car was stuck on the off-ramp onto Highway 55 in Orange County, California.
Downtown San Francisco recorded the second wettest day on record after measuring 5.46 inches of precipitation on Saturday.
“This was the second wettest day in more than 170 years of record for the location, just 0.08 less than the first (5 November 1994) of 5.54,” the National Weather Service said. rice field.
Rainfall Friday through Saturday accounted for nearly 47% of San Francisco’s total rainfall for the entire month of December.
Highway 101, which connects San Francisco to the peninsula, was closed for much of Saturday due to flooding.
Auckland reported its wettest Sunday on record, with 4.75 inches of rain in 24 hours.
The previous record was set in January 1982, according to the National Weather Service.
A stunning video from Sacramento County on Sunday morning showed drivers braving their way through heavy water on driveways and highways.
One clip shows a rescuer standing over a completely submerged vehicle. A helicopter flies overhead looking for stranded cars and people.
Rainfall contributed to the flooding of rivers, including the Cosumnes and Mokelumne rivers in the Sacramento area.
Officials Saturday night said the Kosmnes River alone is expected to reach 15.5 feet.
As of Sunday morning, Highway 99 was closed due to ongoing flooding and overflow from the river.
The north and south of ‘SR-99 will be closed due to flooding from the Cosmnes River, but there are no plans to do so. Avoid traveling near the Wilton, Herald, and suburban areas of Galt,” the National Weather Service said.
Local authorities declared a state of emergency and urged residents to consider evacuating.
Evacuations were also ordered in several Northern California areas, including Eldorado and Santa Cruz counties.
In one community just east of San Francisco, local police rescued more than a dozen elderly people in need.
San Ramon Police Lieutenant Tami Williams said authorities used armored vehicles to help 13 “elderly people who needed help evacuating because of the flooding.”
Authorities are urging drivers to turn back if they are submerged.
Sacramento Firefighters Weekend rescue teenager from tree branch After being trapped while driving through a flood.
The storm also brought power outages to more than 179,000 California homes as of Sunday morning, according to poweroutage.us.
The situation is far from over.
The National Weather Service said, “Wet patterns are likely to persist longer than these saturated soils will have time to dry out completely.”
“The rain only stops on January 1, but more rain falls on January 2-5, and a third calm atmospheric river flows into the area around January 4-5.”
A Category 3 atmospheric river that hit California’s central coast earlier this week flooded Bay Area communities through Sunday.
The National Weather Service issued a flood advisory for the Bay Area that began Tuesday morning.
One Northern California meteorologist described the system as a “storm parade.”